nuclear power plant

Every state will be impacted and it will also depend upon where the bomb is targeted, the time of year and the size of the nuclear bomb.

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Department of Health has ordered the state's lone nuclear power plant to stop shipping radioactive waste after it was found to be in violation of state and federal regulations. KING5-TV reported Thursday that documents it obtained show the Columbia Generating Station, operated by Energy Northwest, made repeated errors in its shipping of radioactive waste

RICHLAND  (AP) — The state's largest solar power project will be built on former Hanford Nuclear Reservation land near Richland. The 20-megawatt solar project will be built by French company Neoen. The Tri-City Herald says it should be completed by 2019...

KENNEWICK (AP) — A Washington nuclear power plant has set a record for annual generation despite two unexpected outages in 2016. The Tri-City Herald reports that Energy Northwest says the Columbia Generating Station in Richland sent 9.6 million megawatt-hours of electricity to the grid last year, topping its previous record of 9...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The state's only nuclear power plant has resumed generating electricity after suffering an unplanned shutdown on Monday. Energy Northwest says the Columbia Generating Station reconnected to the Northwest power grid early Thursday morning and operators are slowly raising the power level to 100 percent. ...

  RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Energy Northwest has unexpectedly shut down its nuclear power plant near Richland after operators received an indication that a system used to cool equipment wasn't working. The Tri-City Herald reports the Columbia Generating Station was shut down Monday after operators were alerted to problems with the system that uses water to provide cooling to heat exchangers and pumps